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Jose Ferrer 01.08.1912 - 01.26.1992 (80 years old)

José Ferrer, was an American actor and theatre and film director. He was the first Puerto Rican-born actor, as well as the first Hispanic actor, to win an Academy Award (in 1950 for Cyrano de Bergerac). In 1947, Ferrer won the Tony Award for his theatrical performance of Cyrano de Bergerac, and in 1952, he won the Distinguished Dramatic Actor Award for The Shrike, and also the Outstanding Director Award for directing the plays The Shrike, The Fourposter, and Stalag 17. Ferrer's contributions to American theatre were recognized in 1981, when he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.In 1985 he received the National Medal of Arts from Ronald Reagan, becoming the first actor to receive that honor. On April 26, 2012, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp in Ferrer's honor in its Distinguished Americans series.

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This actor appeared in the following radio shows

Series	Episode title	Date
Big Show	big show 501231 vivian blaine, jose ferrer
cavalcade of america, the	my friend mcnair	1944-07-03
philo vance	the girl who came back	1945-07-26
philo vance	case of the strange music	1945-08-09
suspense	the pit and the pendulum	1947-11-27
Big Show	big show 501105 fred allen, jimmy durante	1950-11-05
Big Show	big show 501119 eddie cantor, mindie carson	1950-11-19
Hear It Now	hear it now (16) the human tick	1951-03-30
cavalcade of america, the	sound the great bell	1951-07-03
Anthology	anthology (06) poetry of the theater, by the theater, and for the theater	1954-04-04
best of all	best of all (16) sigmond romberg deep in my heart	1954-11-29
biography in sound	the actor	1955-03-06

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From the early days loved his role as Cyrano de Bergerac. Later I loved his role in Dunne. What amazed me the most was how great he could talk like in English (like a Shakespearean actor) with no trace of any accent and he could do the same in Spanish. I am bilingual and talk both English and Spanish extremely well, yet in English I am asked if there is a trace of Cajun in me and when I talk in Spanish I am told there is a slight trace of the way Argentina folks talk. Another great role was in The Caine Mutiny, where he plays a reluctant lawyer for the defense.

Art

Even more impressive, he was born with a speech impediment.

Nicholas Karahalios

Great actor

Joe

Fine actor with a very distinguished voice.

Steven

Wonderful actor. He was exceptional in every role that he played.

Dorothy

One Off the top of my head, I remember enjoying him in The Great Man and The Swarm. Wasn't he in the disaster movie spoof The Big Bus, as well? I also remember him playing a scheming scientist in a two-hour episode of The Love Boat with Harry Morgan.

Robert

I actually liked him best in The Caine mutiny...one of moviedom’s great monologues (after the trial)

David

Ferrer, Jose (birth name was Jose Vincente Ferrer De Otero y Cintron) Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico 1/8/1912; died 1/26/1992 following a brief illness in Coral Gables, Florida. Married and divorced to actress Uta Hagen (1938-1948); Phyllis Hill (1948- 1953); singer Rosemary Clooney (1953-1966); Stella Magee (1992-his death). Ferrer came to America with his family at age six. Educated at Princeton (architecture and music), and led a dance band while attending school. He made his stage debut in 1932, and his radio debut in 1936, but didn't make his screen debut until 1948 in Joan Of Arc (1948). Academy Award for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). Last movie was The Sun And The Moon (1987).

Jack

The minister on the CBS-Radio soap, As The Twig Is Bent (1941-1942). Philo Vance on the NBC- Radio program (1945). Host of The Prudential Family Hour on CBS-Radio (1941); The Hotpoint Holiday Hour on CBS-Radio (1950).

Jack